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The trouble begins when a carefree playboy steals the virtue of a young French maiden and is forced to marry her when her angry father, a financier, finds out.

Limited appeal for an overly frenetic farce.

This film has much in common with the Astaire/Rogers movies being made by RKO at that time. The plot concerns a bachelor playboy and an aspiring songstress thrown together by an embarrassing accident. He pursues her, she rebuffs him, but he persists, and after some amusing misunderstandings eventually sees off a rival suitor and wins her heart. The action takes place in a high society world of partying by gay young things, with never a hint of real life. The settings (nightclubs, expensive apartments, and ocean liners) are pure 1930s art deco. J Elder Wills&#39; sets for this film fall not far short of the best of Van Nest Polglase. So much for the similarities; now for the differences. The musical numbers fall a long way short of Porter, Berlin, or Kern. There is only one notable dance by the leads, which is well enough done, but not memorable. The ensemble choreography throughout is, however, very good. Whereas the Astaire/Rogers series relied on supporting players like Eric Blore or Edward Everett Horton for comic relief, Lupino does his own comedy. A former acrobat, he is adept at trips and entanglements. He has two memorable scenes of this sort, one involving a knotted length of sheets, and the other a knitter&#39;s ball of wool. The print quality of the film in the recently released &quot;The Ealing Studios Rarities Collection, vol. 6&quot; is superb, with lustrous black and white doing full justice to the settings. Stanley Lupino came from a famous theatrical family; he was a cousin of Lupino Lane and the father of Ida Lupino. Charles Penrose, who plays the perpetually laughing passenger on the liner, was the first performer of &quot;The Laughing Policeman&quot; song, written by his wife.

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Honeymoon for Three

If Stanley Lupino is still remembered it is because of the fact that he was Ida Lupino&#39;s father.He made 13 films,some of which have been shown many years ago TV.This one has not and was recently released on DVD.The copy is excellent.The problem is that whilst Lupino is a very skilled performer,particularly when it comes to physical comedy,this is not really a particularly funny film.Also unlike say Happy,or Over She Goes,this does not contain any memorable song and dance numbers.The sets and clothes are great to look at but that&#39;s about all you can say.Lupino died very young at just 49 so we will never know what a post war career might have held for him.

In watching this, I could imagine it being done at an American movie studio, probably with Carole Lombard and one of her many leading men of the time (Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas, etc.), and it would have been done with the same glamour but with less bombastic humor. Stanley Lupino is certainly no leading man in Hollywood eyes which kept him in the British films where character actors were leads, not a bad thing but sometimes leaving their viewers perplexed and reaching for aspirin. The musical numbers certainly are not Fred and Ginger knock-offs, and while Lupino was a very good dancer, it&#39;s like watching Frank McHugh attempting to romance a pretty leading lady which Warner Brothers would never attempt without expecting the audience to break into laughter. That being said, the shipboard number between Lupino and Aileen Marson reminds me of the set of &quot;Anything Goes&quot;, having the two alone all over the deck and then suddenly replaced by a chorus. Very well done. But their chemistry seems odd, especially since it&#39;s not a genuine marriage that they are forced into and I never believed that these two would actually fall for each other. Maybe divorce and remain chums (he&#39;s amusing to be around in very small doses), but spending decades together? No way. Of course you don&#39;t get reality in a movie musical whether American or British, so as long as the songs and dances are good, that&#39;s all that counts. I just wish that the comedy was less obnoxious because after a while it became too much to enjoy.

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Honeymoon for Three

A good example of its kind

Not One Of His Best

Limited appeal for an overly frenetic farce.

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